Closed chenxiaolong closed 2 years ago
This works as designed (and as documented). Duplicates under the same root are all counted as 1, but not filtered out. Here you have 2 roots and because identical files are under either of them, fclones assumes number of replicas to be equal 2 (without -I that would be 4). Because 2 is still greater than 1, they are reported.
And it reports all of them because it has no idea which ones are more important for you - so it lets you choose later (you can edit these output files before further processing).
Thanks for the information. I was thrown off based on the --help
output:
Don't count matching files found within the same directory argument as duplicates
but what you described makes perfect sense (especially given fclones' separate group
phase compared to other one-shot tools).
When running
fclones group -I
, it seems to be finding duplicate files underneath the same root (path argument on command line). For example, if I construct a tree like:and then run
fclones group -I a b
, I get: